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marginal black line widening to costa. 



Genus STEGOTHYRIS. 



Stegothyris, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 427. 

 Type, S. fasciculalis, Zell., from S. Africa 

 Sambawa S< AHca; Himala 7 as ; Burma; Malayan subregion to 



Differs from Bradina in veins 3, 4 of fore wing being stalked: 

 male with a fan of scales in upper angle of cell below. ' 



4705. Stegothyris diagonals, Gu&n. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 201 ; c. & S. 



H0 4oU-L B 



Stegothyris transversalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, pp. 427, 482 



pi. 16, fig. 5. 

 Botys plagalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 96 ; C. $ 8. no. 4074. 



White ; palpi above and frons blackish ; shoulders golden brown ; 



abdomen slightly yellowish above 

 to wards extremity; some diffused 

 golden brown on costal area of 

 fore wing and outer area of both 

 wings, narrowing to anal angle 

 of hind wing ; an oblique line 

 Fig. 129. from costa of fore wing beyond 



Stegothyris diagonalis, $ . \. middle to anal angle of hind 



wing. 



Hob. N.W. & E. Himalayas ; Burma ; Sumatra ; Java; Sambawa. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus HYMENOPTYCHIS. 



Hymenoptychis, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1852, p. 64 (1854). 

 Syrbatis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 119 (1863). 



Type, H. sordida, Zell. 



Range. S. Africa ; Bengal ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Malayan subregion 

 and Pacific groups. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint short, with 

 a small triangular tuft in front ; maxillary palpi minute and filiform ; 

 frons rounded; antennae of male thickened and flattened; legs 

 long and slender ; abdomen very long, especially in male, which has 

 the terminal segment long and pointed. Fore wing long and 

 narrow ; the apex rounded ; cell less than half the length of wing ; 

 vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for some 

 distance ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 straight ; in male the cell 

 very short, 6 bent down and approximated to 4, 5 ; 7 bent down 

 at middle ; a fringe of hair on subcostals below from angle of cell 



